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2021 · Dance – site-specific / aerial

Time of Change

Archive folder: Time of Change (Haight-Ashbury)

Joe Goode, Melecio Estrella, OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch and Gabriele Christian), co-directors · Joe Goode Performance Group

A roving, site-specific dance-theater experience in the Haight-Ashbury, with pop-up moments of original music, monologues and movement, delivered partly through an audio tour on headphones. It weighs the hippie era's utopian ideals and failures against today's social movements and brings forward the neighborhood's overlooked Black and working-class history, drawing on oral-history interviews. It marked Joe Goode Performance Group's 35th and San Francisco Heritage's 50th anniversaries, and was supported by a Creative Work Fund grant.

Premiere
2021-09-02
Venue
Site-specific routes through the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, starting and ending at the Doolan-Larson Building (Haight & Ashbury), co-presented with San Francisco Heritage
Where
San Francisco, CA
Performances
Virtual work-in-progress showing on Zoom, Apr 25, 2021, 5 pm. Pay-what-you-can preview Sept 1, 2021; world premiere Sept 2, 2021. The run was first announced as Wed-Sun, Sept 1-12, 2021, 7:30 pm, and was extended on Aug 25, 2021 through Sunday, Sept 19, 2021 because of demand. Audiences of about 20 followed separate routes of roughly half a mile to a mile within three blocks of Haight and Ashbury (for example 'The Circle', Melecio Estrella's route), listening on their own phones and headphones, and converged at the Doolan-Larson House.
Credits
Co-directors: Joe Goode, Melecio Estrella, OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch, Gabriele Christian). Music direction: Ben Juodvalkis. Rooftop musicians: Ben Juodvalkis, Ryan Huber. Audio tour musicians: Monica Hastings-Smith, Ben Juodvalkis, Maya Nixon, Iwalani Venerable. Audio tour poets: Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ashley Smiley. Live performers: Marit Brook-Kothlow, Gabriele Christian, Chibueze Crouch, Clarissa Dyas, Damara Vita Ganley, James Graham, Molly Katzman, Pangaea, Jarrel Phillips, Wailana Simcock, Jessica Swanson, Saharla Vetsch, Patricia West. Performers on video: Joe Goode, Levi Maxwell, Pangaea. Dramaturgy: Lashon Daley. Lighting design: Grisel Torres. Audio tour design: James Ard. Costume design: Wendy Sparks. Live audio design: Kevin McKereghan. Production management: Katherine Mattson. Filmmaker: Alexa Burrell. Photography: RJ Muna. Poster art: Serge Gay, Jr. Audio description: Stephanie Hewett (Gravity Access Services). Producing support: BANDALOOP. Presenters: Joe Goode Performance Group and San Francisco Heritage.

Press

“Time of Change is guided by dramaturg Lashon Daley with music direction by Ben Juodvalkis and audio tour sound design by James Ard.”

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